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Nanqiao Jigong: The Extraordinary Story of Nanyang Drivers and Mechanics Who Returned to China During the Sino-Japanese War
Pitt Kuan Wah (ed.)
Singapore: National Archives of Singapore, 2011
ISBN: 9789810881016

"This publication complements the travelling exhibition, 'Nanqiao Jigong: The Extraordinary Story of Nanyang Drivers and Mechanics Who Returned to China During the Sino-Japanese War', which was jointly curated by the National Archives of Singapore, the State Archives Administration of China and the Yunnan Provincial Archives between 2008 and 2009.
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The exhibition tells the poignant story of some 3,200 Nanyang Chinese who responded to calls to assist in China's defence against Japanese military aggression. The Singapore leg added a local perspective to the story of the volunteers. Drawing from its rich holdings of hundreds of hours of oral history interview recordings on the topic, the National Archives of Singapore incorporated the personal accounts of local volunteer drivers and mechanics into the storyline."

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